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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Everyday Minerals Lavender Look & Giveaway

Hi Bellas,

I'm back with another video tutorial and review. I'm sure many of you are probably familiar with the mineral makeup company Everyday Minerals. They recently contacted me to review one of their palettes from their Lavendar Collection. I remember ordering from them back when I first started my blog when everyone was obsessed with mineral makeup, lol. I think they were one of the first to give Bare Escentuals a run for their money with affordable, high quality mineral makeup.

Packaging
First off, I'll openly admit that I'm not a huge fan of loose pigments. While I find the color and payoff beautiful, I get tired of the loose powder and mess. I'm a fan of pressed shadows because they're easy to store in palettes and I find myself reaching for them more than pigment jars. Everyday Minerals has solved this problem for me. They developed this ingenious idea of putting together loose mineral palettes in these palettes with pop top pigment storage wells. Loves! You dip your brush into the hole and then swirl off the excess in the circular area around it. The palette also comes with a mini bamboo brush if you need something small to fetch out the powder. They offer these palettes in a range of colors. In terms of the amount of product, there's not a huge amount in each well, but a little pigment goes a long way.

Lavender Collection
These soft pinks and purples are great for spring. Check out my swatches (dry without a base).

I played with these colors a lot, trying them wet and dry and with different color bases under them. At first glance, I'm liking the color options. The shades go really well together. When I swatched them, I found that they are all matte for the most part (except the second shade with a tiny bit of shimmer). Matte pigments can definitely be harder to work with. The key is to apply the color in layers, pat pat, then blend. I found the lightest color a bit ashy on my skin tone so I pretty much avoided that one. I recommend applying this to the brush and then swirling it on the back of your hand to get an even amount of color. It took some practice, but I got these to work for me.

Everyday Minerals is generously sponsoring two of the eyeshadow palettes for two lucky readers. Here's how to win:
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* Leave a comment telling me why you'd like to win.
* I will select a winner at random and announce it on Monday's Post.

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FTC Disclosure: Products were sent from company for review. I am not affiliated with the company and not paid to write the review. These are my honest thoughts.

165 comments:

i would to win the everyday minerals lavendar palette so that I can recreate looks that are unique yet bold. the opportunity for me to win this palette would help me to have a variety of different looks of purple.

wow. gorgeous and easy look! a lot of the time, i don't use purples cause i'm afraid i might make myself look like i have a black/bruised eye. lol. anyways, this palette would be a great addition to my sad make-up collection. i'm trying to build my collection slowly. and hopefully i can try to do this everyday!

I would love to win this everyday minerals lavendar palette because my favorite color has always been lavendar. I think it is such a gorgeous color and your swatches show the beauty in the purples included in your review!

I'm a big mineral makeup fan. I used EM quite a number of years ago and found the eyeshadows to be not very pigmented. I have since moved onto MAC e/s but this new palette with the wells sounds very interesting. Would love a chance to try it out, plus it's purple which is one of my favorite colors for brown eyes.

I love everyday minerals and have actually ordered from them about a year ago . I still have 4 eye shadow pigments too. Like you I think they are messy but are still good quality . I would love to win the palette they are offering .Thanks .

hey ren, i'd love to win this palette because a) i'm starting a collection of eyeshadows b) this color i think would look great on my skintone, i've never tried colors like these and it looks great on you so i'm hoping it'll look the same on me!

RenRen,like yourself I rarely go for minerals too often because of the excess in mess, however, I find this company has created an innovative way of making makeup applicatios w/ minerals less of a mess or hassle. I'd love to win this palette because I can use it for my own personal use when i'm on the go. I like minerals because they are light,airy and healthier for my sensitive skin but I want to prevent myself from getting it all over my clothes or my makeup station. I also want to be able to introduce my clients to this new product because I'm sure this "new" packaging will make the forget their "messy mineral" days and go w/ the new and improved.

Thanks for allowing me the opportunity to participate in this giveaway. Blessings, Amour

I would love to win this palette because the colours look beautiful and I am severely lacking in variety of makeup. I am always too scared to go for unique colours or anything but neutrals and this would be such an awesome prize to win!

I would love to win this palette because well first off I have brown/hazelish eyes and these colors make my eyes pop. I would also love to try out Everyday Minerals, definately will buy from them if I have a good experience. Thanks for this oppurtunity and take care!

I would like to win this palette because there are my favourite colours and the colours not so deep,it's very soft so it is wearable for every day.I want to do this everyday minearls lavender look and I want to win too!~please pick me~:)Thanks for your giveaway!!~

I would love to win because I am new to using matte eyeshadows, and these look gorgeous. I'd love to play around with these! Also I'm very hesitant about online shopping so this would be a easy way for me to try them out and see if they'd be worth ordering.

I'd love to win because i have never tried mineral eyeshadows before and it's hard for me to get access to EDM in my country since it is not commonly found here :) I'd also like to try out lavender looks since it'd be something different from my everyday neutral looks!

I would like to win this because I just can't get over the unique way the mineral palette is made. Who would have thought to put loose mineral powder in that way. It is truly genius. I want to also create the look that you did with the purple palette. Your tutorial is so simple that anybody will be able to pull it off. If I will this palette will definitely be ordering more from the company.

Hey Ren Ren! I would like to win this palette so that I can try the everyday minerals makeup. Always wanted to try it, but didn't want to regret my purchase. After seeing your review I'm interested to see it first hand and play around with this. Thanks again for the giveaway!

I would love to win this because the colors are so pretty. I have never owned or tried any type of loose eyeshadow or mineral make up but I really want to. I have brown hair and eyes so these colors look great on me! Thank you so much for the review and contest!

I would love to win b/c purple is my favourite colour, especially for eyeshadows. I find that purple eyeshadows are as versatile as neutrals: it can be simple and low key but it can easily turn into a really bold look.please enter me for the contest:)

To win this palette would mean more than I can express in words to me, because I've always had a certain fascination bordering on obsession with cosmetics, but becuase of my relatively young age and tight student funds, i don't often get the chance to spend on 'unecessary' items, as my mother dearest would say :) Also, my computer is sooo slow and I live in such a remote canadian place, i don't get access to makeup much at all. to watch a makeup tutorial or order something online, i have to let my dinosaur computer load all day while I'm at school! I hope you don't take this as a sad sob story trying to pity you into giving me a prize- I have a great deal of respect for you, since you taught me all the things a girl should know about makeup, no matter what she has, who she is, or where she lives. have a beautiful day (:

i'd love to win the palette because it'd be a good way to expand my collection, i'd love to try it out so that if it's something i enjoy, i can purchase the other palette from everydayminerals as well.

Thanks for doing another tutorial! I really liked the look you chose to do with that palette, and the colors are good for the transition between winter and spring! Yay! Pink and purples are SO CUTE! I would like to be entered to win the palette!

Hello! I would love this palette because I am so tired of breaking out whenever I use other products that contain bismuth oxychloride, and I know Everyday Minerals doesn't use that. So, this palette = breakout free for me! : )

I am loving your videos! I would love to win this pallet. One because the colors are great and its so unique! Also because I am an aspiring free lance artist but since I'm a single mother I don't have extra chash to put into building my kit. I love finding lines that are affordable and high quality. I am inspired by Make up because of the way it makes me feel Like a powerfull woman. Even when my I'm feeling down in the dumps or beat down by life. Thanks and keep up the awsome work you are inspiring woman and helping us build our self confidence wich is an amazing thing!

uld love to win this palette because I don't really have a very big make-up collection so any help with building it up little by little would be great..=)..plus I love purples..Thank u RenRen for all the giveaways you are so sweet ♥

I'd love to try this out. I love pigments because I always get such good color payoff with them. When I use pressed they colors seem dull and muddy to me. But I travel a lot and find pigments do NOT travel well. The jars I have (mostly the sample size from PureLuxe) almost always become a little unscrewed so that powder 'leaks' out around the edges and coats everything. This seems amazingly travel friendly! Right up my alley!

As you said in your video some people are scared to wear smokey eye look. I like a little more natural looking yet still dramtic and tutorial showed how to do a lovely easy lavendar smokey look I think I could do. I'd love to try it out!!

I love to win because I just really love this pallet idea. I love companies that think outside the box. The pallet seems to be small, convenient, and a clever way of simplifying pigments (instead of have drawers of scattered bottles). Do you think the palette would be resuseable? (Put in different color pigments after using them up? If so I'd want it just for that let alone the pretty colors!)

I have seen so much products from Everyday Minerals, but I was not have a chance to try it out. I really want to win this because it is so awesome for it packaging. I love the idea so much. amazing. And purple is such a gorgeous color. I love it.

Hey Ren!Thanks for the lovely review :)I would love to enter the giveaway if there's room because 1. Purple is my FAVORITE color and has been for a very long time. 2. I have never had the opportunity to try EM. 3. I have green eyes and lavender is supposed to make them stand out (or purples in general! I'm really lemming the ITG purple MAC quad you did the beautiful look with!) and also, I'm working on trying to nail down the smokey eye and I think with lighter purples, I'd have an easier time =)Thanks Ren!

I would enjoy winning this becuz i love lavender colors and especially mineral makeup sounds really cool. I don't have any mineral makeup and i would like to add it in my collection. Take care and i hope you feel better...i noticed your eyes so red...wish u the best..your fan maria

I would enjoy winning this becuz i love lavender colors and especially mineral makeup sounds really cool. I don't have any mineral makeup and i would like to add it in my collection. Take care and i hope you feel better...i noticed your eyes so red...wish u the best..your fan maria

I think you are fabulous, and I loved your tutorial for the palette that you are giving away. I would love to be entered to win it! Thank you so much for doing your tutorials and giveaways! My e-mail is ashtontate323@yahoo.com and my YouTube account is ashtontate323.

I would like to win the everyday minerals palette because I never tried their pressed eye shadows before. I am impressed by their blue and foundation so I want to check these eye shadows and see if they are just as good.

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